Are Dietary Supplements Dangers in Disguise? Liana Kresch Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine The FDA’s current categorization of dietary supplements as food products comes with high risks, allowing supplements to escape required safety and efficacy studies.
Can Meditation Help Ease Chronic Pain? Macayla Donegan Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine Can We Change the Way We Perceive and Process Pain?
Medicine’s First Commandment and the Environment Laura Christianson Medicine, Science & Medicine Two years ago, I wanted to reduce the amount of material being thrown into disposal bins at the end of operative procedures at my institution’s hospital. After I spoke with all the parties involved—supply...
The Acquiescent Arrow: C. Steve Johnson on Art & Healing Lisa Annelouise Rentz Art & Literature, Arts & Culture, Medicine, Science & Medicine When healing is the target Illness is the bow. What is a bow but a device for the transfer of energy? Likewise an illness. — Haven Trevino Soon after Steve Johnson moved from Brooklyn to Beaufort,...
Becoming-Plant in Indian Ocean Worlds: Lines, Flows, Winds, and Water Julie Laplante Medicine, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture Our faces are stretching. Taking a step forward takes up all our strength. We cling on to the rock walls to pull ourselves forward. We are at one of the edges of the Indian Ocean at the southern tip of...
What Can Medicine Be? Top Reads Laura Christianson Medicine, Science & Medicine When a medical student has time to read, what does she read? Today’s Top Reads comes from Hippo Medical Correspondent Laura Christianson, with books featuring empathy, inspired wisdom, service work, and...
Are Hospitals the Safest Place for Healthy Women to Have Babies? An Obstetrician Thinks Twice Neel Shah Medicine, Science, Science & Medicine, Society & Culture This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. There is a good chance that your grandparents were born at home. I am going to go ahead and assume they turned...
